cnorthwood

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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Sometimes people build things of value and want others to take it. For example, open source.
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GEIC hosts first exterior pour of graphene-enhanced Concretene(manchester.ac.uk)
1 points by cnorthwood 5y ago|0 comments
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Is the tech industry measuring the right things?(blog.humanvalues.bbctest01.uk)
1 points by cnorthwood 5y ago|0 comments
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
The cookie popups are not part of GDPR, but a separate law (ePrivacy Directive)
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Building more parking doesn't solve the issue of congestion, it just makes it worse.
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
The UK is running at 40% non-hydro renewables right now and we have a very stable grid https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
I assume it's better value for money than actually building a set on location as they've done for previous Olympics
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
The difference between idle and load energy consumption of switches, routers, etc
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Yep, it is odd. There's also an entire piece of R&D that the BBC are doing that I know people on called "Public Service Internet" https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/public-service-internet
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
It's more to avoid false positives. I've had bug bounty hunters flag secrets in my projects before looking for a bounty, but in actuality it was some random string in a variable named AWS_ACCESS_KEY etc that we used in a unit test
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
In the UK the local council (town hall) only holds the plans relevant to making planning decisions, not the detailed construction plans. Private companies can sign off the building safety (known as building control) usually as part of provi
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
It depends on the country you're in. In the UK for example, you're only allowed to listen to broadcast, amateur radio, or transmissions to which you are the intended recipient
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Operational ease
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
I think it's cultural. We have some brand names where I believe Americans don't, for example. For example, we hoover where Americans vacuum.
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
few bits in the Thames Valley if I'm walking back from the buffet car or whatever, but the bits they're making faster are the bits through the Lakes and Borders and whenever I've been on the Transpennine 110mph trains I can&#
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
Pendolino's are still used on the West Coast Mainline connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow and I don't really have a problem with them. They're not going away any time soon, until we have HS2 (bran
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by cnorthwood 5y ago
There are in-person groups in a few cities when gathering was permitted (I play in Manchester). We've moved to https://werewolv.es , which is an online platform and has a good Discord community attached
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Most landline networks are also digital now for exchange to exchange communications, so even those will be packet based
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Facebook managed to get some off-Facebook activity from me even using this. The site in question was also loaded in a Private Browsing window and Facebook claimed it was from pixel tracking. I'm guessing they've inferred it based
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Co-production is a form of design, no? You design within constraints and it should be happening in tandem with the development of the system so they both feed into one another.
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
If the population is truly zero, I wonder how many other infrastructure concerns will come first? Primarily road connections, but also electric grid and potable water. There are alternatives to the latter 2 but it is a significant impact
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Somerset cattle grid mistaken for wall by car sensors(bbc.co.uk)
99 points by cnorthwood 6y ago|146 comments
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
The biggest change is that now the person shipping (or a marketplace if they use it) has to be VAT-registered and pay VAT directly to the government, rather than it be handled by the courier/shipping service who would collect it direct
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
I don't think they require it - the data in question allows it to optimise startup otherwise it can take many minutes to successfully acquire enough data to compute your location
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
Is that cash, or is a significant amount of that stocks/shares or other non-cash reimbursement (which I assume is subject to tax at the point it's realised)?
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
It seems very hard to compare the two figures. I guess the interesting way to compare them would be what's the disposable income you have to spend normalised against purchasing power. So gross salary, less taxes (payroll and any others
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
No, Companies House also requires you to declare "persons with significant control" in the ltd company, which includes the owners. (for example, this is my company https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
although Lithuania is both in the EU and NATO which would make it a very different proposition
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
There are two types of freedoms under liberalism, the "freedom to", and "freedom from". Libertarians are mostly concerned with the former (e.g., minimising laws which stop their ability to do something) whereas modern li
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by cnorthwood 6y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to keep the personal details of trial participants secret, for example

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